Quote by Herman Melville
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They dont know how – Elie Wiesel

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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, thats its not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain –if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Morris K. Udall

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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. – George Orwell

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